The bearer of ill tidings

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)

“They have surfaced.”
“Who?”
“The Prophets.”
“The Prophets? The Prophets of Doom?”
“The Prophets of Doom.”
“Oh my, what is the time?
I almost forgot
they are a bit late showing up.”
“What shall we do?”
“What shall we do… indeed?
What can we do?
They are the Prophets, after all
and the words of the Prophets
must be spoken and heard
that is the Way
leave them for now.”
“But we fear them.”
“It is not they you should fear.”

Don’t you see that, I

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)

Don’t you see that
I am greater than thee
for I have thé degree
Don’t you see that
I am greater than thee
for I am thé smarty
Don’t you see that
I am greater than thee
for I have DSTV
and don’t you see that
I am greater than thee
for I have a full-time nanny
to change
my dirty
nappy

Don’t you see that ?

Can’t you see that, II

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)

Can’t you see that
I art greater than thou
For I live in the here and the now
Can’t you see that
I art greater than thou
For I have a thoroughbred chow
Can’t you see that
I art greater than thou
For all day my chow goes ‘Bow-Wow-Wow”
Can’t you see that
I art greater than thou
For my chow has even taken a vow
Yes he’s taken a vow
To learn how to plough

Now tell me I aren’t greater than thou ?

Homesick

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)

Fucked, and far from home

The Brain of Breyten

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)

Uh-duh…

DUSK

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)

Is it a time-bomb you are setting?
Is it our lost love you are regretting?
Why is this upsurge so upsetting?
If these things weren’t so distracting
(seeing you, his head you’re patting)
if these thoughts weren’t so contorted
perhaps my hearts-cry would be transported
but this castle’s uncompleted
Another surge of vitality needed
how you begged, how you pleaded
Asking me if I won’t please feed it
This insatiable self of yours
From your lips poisonous honey pours
hard as a rock at the center-core
Wondering what the gun was for?
Wilderness knights and maidens of days long by
Virgin breaks after not much of a try
Your past lies flat, open before me
Watching all your lies as they flee
It’s not only for you, it’s also for him
seeing those eyes so dreamy and green
Tasting your lips, I touch and I test
watching your hips go bounce as you walk
watching, expectantly, your breast
seems there is a slight swell as we talk
Trying to regain correct functioning of my brain
struggling to explain, what to me seems so plain,
this ceaseless battle to obtain more than old whatsisname
trying to maintain, every effort is in vain
Every-one the trophy claims, partial working I regain
suicide you sustain, still you say I need no brain
cramped in this uncomfortable frame ever since my soul was slain
since that day your head is craned,
see your light begin to wane
From far away I see your sun slipping out of sight
Narrowly I see your day return to night
Fight? You might, but alas to no avail
this time, same as every-one, you fail
No more high-head, tight lip, jaunty smile
like all the dry, dead, old shit
Junk is on a pile
What a way to say: ”Hey, good-day, good-bye”
Have your way, I pull into the lay-bye.
and watch visions of fornication fly by

The River

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)

the river runs wild
the river runs true
the river of my love
runs into the sea
of you.

Easter 03

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)

”Darkness
(The noon of heavens sorrow
the mid-afternoon our joy)
the sky was terrorized by thunder
as if being ripped into two
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ?”
the veil tore – the earth shook
the ground, involuntarily
opened its mouths

the dead rose among us
the soldier cried; “Lord!”
then came soft murmuring,
then came the quiet.”

So as the sage,
The son of Simon,
Had told me:
“This is the day that they killed Jesus Christ.”

kinsmen

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)

My nation
The lost tribes
You are out there
I know

I know
you are out there
keeping watch in the dark,
keeping watch in the dark

till the bark of
the dawn and the
Lifeless get form
and I am free

free as a bird
absurd as it sounds
we must go
forward

into the night

Illustrations

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)

there’s a tattoo
on her skin
of a devil
with a grin
there’s a portrait
in her mind
of fair angels
most unkind
slight impressions
on her soul
(a small blemish
scars her so)
but, there’s a picture
in her heart
of true love that never parts.

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